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发帖数: 6973 | 1 (1) Dan Levin, In opera, West Meets East; The I Sing Beijing program brings
Western performers to China to learn to sing works in Mandarin. Los Angeles
Times, Aug
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news
/la-ca-culture-china-20110814,0,6076530.story
Note:
(a) There is no Chinese name for "I Sing Beijing."
(b) TIAN Haojiang 田 浩江
(c) Yu Opera of Henan 豫剧
(2) Chris Kraul, Soybeans Now Rule the Range on Argentina Plains; In a
country famous for its beef, ranchers are trading their livestock for soy
crops, a safer, faster and more lucrative business. Los Angeles Times, Aug
12, 2011
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world
/la-fg-argentina-gaucho-20110812,0,1679915.story
Quote:
"Turns out the same soil and climate conditions that make Argentina ideal
for cattle also make it primo soybean terrain. Add in a tripling of global
soy prices over the last decade * * * and you have a massive migration to
soy around these parts.
"Growing soy, a low-cost crop that can yield two harvests a year, is a
virtual no-brainer. Newborn cattle, on the other hand, take three years to
bring to market * * * At the end of the day, growing soy can be twice as
profitable per acre as raising cattle
"The total cattle herd in Argentina is about 47.9 million head, down 17%
from the 58.3 million as recently as 2007 * * * Meanwhile, the national
harvest of soybeans this year is expected to reach 50 million tons, compared
with the 30 million tons harvested a decade ago
"The boom has been good for Argentina, which is third behind the United
States and Brazil as the world's leading producers of soy, a high-protein
food especially popular in China and India. * * * [An Argentine farmer] is
convinced that high soy prices are here to stay with demand from China still
rising
Note: maté (n; , from American Spanish mate maté, vessel for drinking it,
from Quechua mati vessel):
"1: a tealike beverage drunk especially in South America
2: a South American shrub or tree (Ilex paraguariensis) of the holly family
whose leaves and shoots are used in making maté; also : these leaves and
shoots")
www.m-w.com
* Yerba maté
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerba_mat%C3%A9
(a species of holly native to subtropical South America; first used and
cultivated by Indians; plant is a shrub or small tree; leaves are evergreen;
The leaves, popularly called "herb" (Spanish: yerba, Portuguese: erva)
contain caffeine)
(3) Michael O'Hanlon, The US Still Has a Promising Future. Los Angeles Times
, Aug 11, 2011 (op-ed)
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary
/la-oe-ohanlon-america-20110811,0,1890319.story
("The intellectual excellence does not end there. Of the $1.2 trillion the
world spent on research and development activities last year, $400 billion
was spent in the U.S. Europe in aggregate spent less than $300 billion.
Totals for China and Japan were each around $150 billion. Others were far
behind.")
My comment:
(a) Regarding the figures for US and the entire Europe. It is not surprising
, considering that both have a similar nomnal GDP. See
List of countries by GDP (nominal)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)
(CIA World Factbook 2010: European Union 16t, US 14.66t)
(4) Carol D. Leonnig and Karen Tumulty, Perry Welcomed Chinese Firm Despite
Security Concern. Washington Post, Aug 10, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/perry-welcomed
-chinese-firm-despite-security-concern/2011/08/10/gIQAAu80EJ_story.html
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